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...attractions of the well-known university, to men who come from beyond the limits of New England to attend it Mr. Train himself rather idealizes maintained for generations, argue in its possessor? Does it not to the ordinary mind tell a tale of superiority? A more upstart may affect indifference, but can he "get away with if:? What is the fine outward air of indifference (we are still looking at the matter from the point of view of the ordinary observer) but a proof of aristocracy either of descent or of mind? If a college education is worth the salt...
...should receive such high recognition, but we are to presume it is because they make peace at any price. So far the Nobel prizes have not been bestowed carelessly; they have marked great attainments in the field for which they have been given. Never have they been awarded to upstart demagogues, who pose as patriots by disseminating enemy propaganda. If Lenine and Trotzky are to receive a Nobel prize, let it not be branded one given for peace. Rather let it be the Nobel prize for subtle treason, for ingenious treachery, for cold feet. By making ridiculous agrarian land promises...
...have been told there was once a day when the Illustrated fell just short of complete respectability. It is a hard judgment; but the scorn of the established literary institution for the yellow upstart is proverbial. The United States is said to be daily gaining in military strength by the European adoption of the Kilkenny Cat policy. By a similar path the Illustrated has emerged into the front ranks of the University's "best." It is to be both expected and highly desired that the Illustrated will do an ever increasing share of the representing of Harvard to the outside...
Oxford was founded on the structure of the Paris university. The university was considered as an upstart for the men of the middle ages believed that Germany had the empire, Italy the prince and France the schools. What right had England to set up a university? The struggle in 1265 when Simon de Mont Fort established the House of Commons, created a great excitement at Oxford, and the influence wielded by the students was great. The right of clergy which it is well known existed in the middle ages has not yet died out, but only last year an undergraduate...